Hundreds of American Apparel Inc. workers must leave the company because they were unable to prove their immigration status or fix problems with their employment records, the company said Wednesday.

The terminations come two months after the Los Angeles manufacturer and retailer announced that a government inspection had found that about 1,600 of its workers didn’t appear to be authorized to work in the U.S.

“There are approximately 1,500 workers facing termination during the month of September,” said Peter Schey, a lawyer for American Apparel. All of the affected workers are based at the company’s manufacturing facility in downtown Los Angeles.

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